COLTON: Correctional officer shot on his way to work

A San Bernardino Sheriff's investigator photographs the scene where a correctional officer was shot at a Shell gas station in Colton, on May 3, 2013. The officer in ICU was shot a little after 9pm on May 2.

Authorities say a correctional officer was attacked and shot while pumping gas in Colton on his way to work Thursday night by a shooting suspect who was recently paroled from the same Chino prison.

Colton police released no details Friday and have not said if the shooting was random or a targeted attack.

Authorities have not yet identified the correctional officer, but the warden for Chino Institution for Women, Tamara Kabban-Miller, issued a statement identifying him as Tom Dennie, 52, a 26-year veteran at the California Institution for Men in Chino.

Dennie, a Fontana resident, remained in critical condition Friday at an intensive-care unit.Â

âOfficer Dennie was on his way to work at CIM, First Watch, when he stopped for gasoline at a Shell Gas Station. He was in uniform, and did have his cover shirt on,â according to the message posted on a California Institution for Men officer's association blog.

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Authorities have arrested two men on suspicion of shooting the officer. According to the blog post, one of them was recently paroled from the California Institution for Men.

Police said a 2004 Dodge Durango pulled up to the Shell gas station at the corner of Iowa and La Cadena avenues shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday and asked the officer for directions.

A man in the Durango then fired three shots from the SUV, striking the correctional officer in the head and the leg, witnesses said.

Colton police put out an all-points bulletin for the car, leading Riverside police to find the SUV pulling into a Burger King drive-through.

Colton police booked Christopher Josephat Marquez, 24, and Anthony Gomez Jr., 31, both of Riverside, on suspicion of attempted murder. They were booked at the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino, where bail for each was set at $1 million.

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Gomez was convicted of robbery in 1998 and served time in a Los Angeles County prison.

He was then convicted in 2000 in San Bernardino for carjacking and assault with a deadly weapon, and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

After being paroled in 2010, he returned to prison and was released in March 2012. He was discharged from parole March 15.

Court records show Marquez has multiple DUI convictions, as recently as 2010, but had no felony charges in Riverside County. Marquez has no prison record.

The Shell station on Friday morning remained cordoned off by yellow police tape, and four cars were parked at the scene, including Dennieâs pickup, which was still hooked to the gas pump. Yellow evidence markers were next to one gas pump while detectives combed the site for evidence.

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